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Feb 27, 2014 at 12:01 AM

Man accusedof shooting dog

COQUILLE — A 30-year-old Coquille man was arrested on animal abuse charges Tuesday morning after neighbors said he shot and killed their dog.

Jed Bradly Alexander was booked at the Coos County Jail for first-degree aggravated animal abuse, unlawful use of a weapon and seven counts of being a felon in possession of a weapon, Coquille police said.

Alexander also was charged with possession of more than an ounce of marijuana.

Police said they went to Alexander’s home in the 300 block of South Henry Street after the report of the shooting.

Officers found the dog dead in the yard from a large-caliber gunshot wound to the head.

Northwest

Wolf sightedon Mount Hood

Oregon’s wolf population continues to grow and has spun off another pathfinder that made it to the Cascades.

A draft of the state’s 2013 wolf report says tracks were confirmed in December after a sighting on the eastern flanks of Mount Hood, about 200 miles west of the wolf packs in Northeastern Oregon.

Three hundred miles south in the southern Cascades, the famous wandering wolf OR-7 has been shuttling between Oregon and California looking for a mate since fall 2011.

It was not known whether the Mount Hood wolf was a female and potential mate for OR-7, or another dispersing male, said the department’s wolf coordinator, Russ Morgan.

Gas theft attempt ignites house fire

ESTACADA — A vacant house caught fire as two men who had broken in were trying to steal gas from a vehicle in the garage by drilling through the gas tank, police said.

An alert witness provided an account of two men who drove up Tuesday afternoon, walked to the rear of the house, then drove off a short time later as the house started to burn, Clackamas County sheriff’s Robert Wurpes said. Armed with that report, a deputy stopped the car and its “slightly singed” occupants, Wurpes said.

The fire severely damaged the house.

James Carden, 48, of Estacada and Richard Gardner, 22, of Eagle Creek were arrested.

Senate passes bill limiting records

SALEM — The Oregon Senate has voted to carve another hole in the state’s public records law.

Senators approved a bill that would prohibit disclosure of agreements signed by ranchers over conservation of habitat for sage grouse, a threatened ground bird.

Proponents said the measure is needed to get ranchers to participate in the voluntary conservation program, which aims to keep the grouse off the endangered species list. Many ranchers are concerned about protecting their personal and business information.

There are more than 400 types of public records that are exempt from disclosure under Oregon law.

— News service reports

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